Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:11:46 -0500 From: Hal Snyder <hal@post.vale.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "'Neil'" <neil@corpex.com> Subject: RE: Firewalling with IPFW Message-ID: <01BBA0AB.F46BFC30@jaguar>
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Neil wrote: > Is IPFW capable of acting as a firewall for services run on the machine > it is installed on, or is it only for machines with two Ethernet cards, > that are acting as a gateway? But of course! > We are interested in running a firewall for a single machine, and would > obviously like to minimize the amount of hardware we are using. Are you trying to protect a FreeBSD box? Ipfw is just packet filtering. Consider tcp_wrapper, etc. as well. Later, the firewall can become a proxy server if you add a network card. :)
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